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Bidboard # 1971
Lot # 317
Catalogue Value or Estimate: $150.00
Current Bid: $100
Great Britain # 1

The famous 1840 issue Penny Black in a framed presentation alongside silver replica and Royal Mail scene, with signed (Ronald Richards) and numbered (#95-233) "Certificate of Authenticity and Genuineness", by Excelsior Collector's Guild Ltd. The Penny Black itself, used with red Maltese Cross cancel and margins on three sides (just in at right), otherwise a sound and certified example of the world's first postage stamp. Estimate =